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Shamash-shum-ukin

Shamash-shum-ukin (Šamaš-šuma-ukīn) was king of Babylon from 667 or 668 to 648 BC, a son of Esarhaddon and probably the elder brother of Ashurbanipal, who rebelled against him and died when Babylon fell in 648.

Shamash-shum-ukin's revolt

Shamash-shum-ukin's revolt was a civil war from 652 to 648 BCE between Šamaš-šuma-ukīn, king of Babylonia, and his brother Assurbanipal of Assyria, ending with the fall of Babylon and the rebel king's death.

Shambaa Kingdom

The Shambaa Kingdom was a kingdom in the Usambara Mountains of north-eastern Tanzania, ruled by the Kilindi dynasty from the 18th century until the German conquest.

Shambhala (2025 film)

Shambhala (2025 film), also known as Aadi Shambhala: A Mystical World, is a Telugu supernatural horror thriller directed by Ugandhar Muni. It stars Aadi Saikumar.

Shambhala (ཤམྦྷ་ལ)

Shambhala (ཤམྦྷ་ལ), also called Shamballah, is a mythic kingdom of Tibetan Buddhist doctrine, known from the Kālacakra tantra and its prophecy of a final battle.

Shambhala Music Festival

Shambhala Music Festival is an annual July electronic dance music festival founded in 1998 by the Bundschuh family at Salmo River Ranch near Salmo, British Columbia. Six permanent stages, no corporate sponsorship, alcohol-free, about 23,500 attendees, distinct from the UK's Shambala Festival.

Shambhavi Choudhary

Shambhavi Choudhary (born 1999) is an Indian politician of the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) who represents Samastipur, Bihar, in the Lok Sabha, elected in 2024 at age 25.

Shambhu Sharan Patel

Shambhu Sharan Patel, born in 1982 in Munger, Bihar, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented Bihar in the Rajya Sabha since 2022.

Shambhu Singh

Shambhu Singh (शम्भू सिंह) was Maharana of Udaipur, ruler of the Mewar kingdom in present-day Rajasthan, from 1861 to 1874, remembered for reforms curbing sati and founding Mewar's first government schools, including a school for girls.

Shambhuraj Desai

Shambhuraj Desai is an Indian Shiv Sena politician and minister in the Government of Maharashtra, holding the Tourism, Mining, and Border Defence portfolios and representing Patan in the assembly.

Shame

Shame (수치심) is a self-conscious emotion of negative self-evaluation, distinguished from guilt by its focus on the whole self rather than a specific action; studied across psychology, philosophy, culture, and clinical research.

Shame (1968 film)

Shame (Skammen) is Ingmar Bergman's 1968 Swedish black-and-white antiwar drama starring Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydow as musicians caught in a civil war on a Baltic island.

Shame (2011 film)

Shame (2011) is a British drama by Steve McQueen, co-written with Abi Morgan, starring Michael Fassbender as sex-addicted New Yorker Brandon and Carey Mulligan as his sister Sissy; Venice Best Actor and FIPRESCI winner, NC-17 rated.

Shame and Money

Shame and Money (Hatixhja dhe Shabani) is a 2026 social realist drama by Visar Morina about Kosovar dairy farmers who lose their cows and move to Pristina. It won the Sundance 2026 World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize.

Shameik Moore

Shameik Moore, born 1995 in Atlanta, Georgia, is an American actor and musician. Known for Malcolm in Dope (2015), Shaolin Fantastic in The Get Down, Raekwon in Wu-Tang: An American Saga, and as the voice of Miles Morales in the Spider-Verse films.

Shameless (American TV series)

Shameless is Showtime's American adaptation of Paul Abbott's British series, running 11 seasons (2011–2021, 134 episodes) in Chicago's South Side, starring William H. Macy as alcoholic Frank Gallagher, led by Emmy Rossum's Fiona, executive produced by John Wells.

Shameless (British TV series)

Shameless (UK) is a Channel 4 comedy-drama created by Paul Abbott, broadcast 2004-2013 over 11 series and 139 episodes, set on Manchester's fictional Chatsworth Estate and following the alcoholic Frank Gallagher's family; it won BAFTAs and spawned US, Turkish, and Indian remakes.

Shamez Ladhani

Shamez Ladhani is a British pediatric infectious-diseases physician and epidemiologist at St George's, University of London and the UK Health Security Agency, known for leading England's meningococcal B vaccine evaluation.

Shami Chakrabarti

Shami Chakrabarti, Baroness Chakrabarti, British barrister, and Labour peer; director of Liberty 2003-2016; chaired the 2016 Labour antisemitism inquiry; Shadow Attorney General 2016-2020; author of On Liberty.

Shamian (沙面)

Shamian (沙面), also known as Shameen, is a small artificial island in the Pearl River in Guangzhou, China, built as a British and French concession after the Second Opium War.

Shamier Little

Shamier Little (born 1995, Louisville, Kentucky) is an American 400m hurdler; 2015 and 2023 world silver medallist, 2014 world junior champion, and Paris 2024 Olympic gold (4x400m) and silver (mixed 4x400m) medallist; PB 52.39.

Shamika Ravi

Shamika Ravi, Indian economist, member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister and Secretary to Government of India; former Brookings India research director and ORF vice president known for development economics research and policy commentary.

Shamil Abdurakhimov

Shamil Abdurakhimov ("Abrek"), born 1981 in Dagestan, Russia, is a heavyweight MMA fighter, five-time Sanshou champion, 2011 ADFC grand prix winner, and UFC veteran with a 5-6 UFC record from 2015 to 2023.

Shamil Basayev

Shamil Basayev (Shamil Basaev), Chechen field commander and terrorist leader of the 1994–96 and 1999 wars; led Budyonnovsk 1995, Dagestan 1999, Beslan 2004; killed by Russian forces July 2006.

Shamil Gaziev (Шамиль Хасбулатович Газиев)

Shamil Gaziev (Шамиль Газиев), Bahrain-based Dagestani UFC heavyweight born 1990 in Khunzakh; 15-3 record, 10 KO wins, all losses by KO; first fighter to finish Martin Buday.

Shamil Khisamutdinov

Shamil Khisamutdinov (Шамиль Хисамутдинов, born 1950) is a Soviet Greco-Roman wrestler, 1972 Olympic lightweight champion, 1973 and 1975 world champion, later a coach of Karelin and federation president.

Shamil Musaev (fighter)

Shamil Musaev, "The Silent Assassin" (Шамиль Мусаев), Russian welterweight MMA fighter born 1994 in Kizlyar, Dagestan; 2024 PFL welterweight tournament champion, 20-1-1 record, former six-time Russian wushu-sanda champion.

Shamil Sabirov

Shamil Sabirov (Шамиль Алтаевич Сабиров), Soviet light-flyweight boxer born 1959 in Karpinsk; won 48 kg gold at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, the only Soviet boxing gold there, beating Hipólito Ramos 3-2.

Shamil Serikov

Shamil Serikov (Шамиль Каримович Сериков), Soviet Greco-Roman wrestler from Almaty; 1980 Moscow Olympic bantamweight champion, world champion 1978-79, European champion 1979; died 1989.

Shamil Sunyaev

Shamil Sunyaev is a computational genomicist who studies genetic variation and the biology of mutation, and is a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute.